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We all kinda knew, though, that creationists egotistically assume they're right because they've got some invisible boogieman on their side. God's got an awesome beard, but not much else going for him -- would you want to believe in someone who doesn't backhand (through various methods) priests who touch little boys? You know, never mind that one is based on shitloads* of research over the years, and one was just something that someone scribbled in a book once upon a time because they were afraid of the dark.

*Actual technical term!

Though the chart was good, especially that last entry, which reads like "Both sides are douche bags who think entirely too highly of the human species."

My complaint is with rampant oversimplification and mischaracterization of the "other side" - which is actually frequently a complaint applied to both sides. So much of the discourse obscures more than it clarifies and teaches. This textbook (is it really one?) is guilty of shorthanding the evolutionary perspective, yes, but the frustrating thing is that the science - the good science: the valid reasoning, confirmed predictions from hypotheses, modest refinements of theory, constrained extrapolation to reality, strict observance of logical relationships and possibilities - is still and actually all out there. It is just easily lost amid the noise of not only the obscurantists of the creation movement but also of all the bad science and demonstrably ill-qualified science vocalizers that are out there too. We can't afford that kind of mess in our wider society, let alone in our educational system. To see things like this Louisiana classroom nonsense is discouraging for the ideal of science education and hopeful popular science communicators. =/

Robin Williams
1951-2014"What's it gonna be? I don't know. But maybe along the way, you take my hand, tell a few jokes, and have some fun. C'mon, pal. You're not afraid, are ya?"

Well, if God does exist(and I believe he does) he could really do anything he wanted. Just saying.

But I believe in evolution; creationism just doesn't...fit in...with the miracles in the Bible, which, other than the creation of the world, were all physically possible. I'm not saying the creationist theory must be wrong; it could happen. But nothing's really proven, so it's kind of stupid to go around teaching any of those theories in schools :/

Evolution I can understand being taught, as I've never seen any [good] arguments against it(except platypuses).

My paleontologist friends and I have been crying over that for awhile now. Did you see the article where senator Marco Rubio, who is on the technology and SCIENCE committee, says he has no way of knowing how old the earth is?

**** these people.

How did the mathematician solve his constipation problem?
He worked it out with a pencil.

Well, if God does exist(and I believe he does) he could really do anything he wanted. Just saying.

But I believe in evolution; creationism just doesn't...fit in...with the miracles in the Bible, which, other than the creation of the world, were all physically possible. I'm not saying the creationist theory must be wrong; it could happen. But nothing's really proven, so it's kind of stupid to go around teaching any of those theories in schools :/

Evolution I can understand being taught, as I've never seen any [good] arguments against it(except platypuses).

See, I have a simple solution that could make everyone happy -- The Bible was (choose here: a. "written incorrectly with blanks filled in"; b. "extremely metaphorical, allegorical, and just plain exaggerated by its human authors and re-printers"), and evolution is actually correct and what God intended. The claim is that God knows everything, so wouldn't he know that things change? Just think of it as a software update.

Originally Posted by blaze boy

Really now?

I used to pray to God to cure my deafness for years, it wasn't until I was 16 when I just gave up and stop believing in him.

I used to pray to God to cure my deafness for years, it wasn't until I was 16 when I just gave up and stop believing in him.

If you constantly begged for a man to give you money would you expect him to give it to you

Not trying to start anything but your kind of being selfish here. God isn't going to magically fix **** in your life no matter how bad it gets.
go ahead and call me a bad person for saying that but i really dont care i love jesus

Last edited by Zenotwapal; 23rd November 2012 at 12:21 AM.

Hi I am a white male! I am pleased to meet you.
I am automatically racist and privileged. I make more money than you. I cannot grasp the concept of racism nor can I feel its effects because I am white, hence empathy is impossible for fair skinned folks like me. I am a bad person for being White. Shame on me! Thanks for teaching us so much about equality and prejudice, MLK!

If you constantly begged for a man to give you money would you expect him to give it to you

Not trying to start anything but your kind of being selfish here. God isn't going to magically fix **** in your life no matter how bad it gets.
go ahead and call me a bad person for saying that but i really dont care i love jesus

If I was poor and had no money, then yes, I would expect that someone would give at least a bit of their money to help.

I'm sorry, but who the hell are you to tell someone deaf that it's "selfish" for them to want to be given the same natural abilities that you use and enjoy every day?

If you constantly begged for a man to give you money would you expect him to give it to you

But God isn't just any man.

If God created me then that wouldn't that make him my parent and wouldn't he do everything in his power for his child, since you know parents only want the best for their child.

Let take my real parents when they found out that I was deaf they decided that they would do everything in their power that I would get the support that I needed.

They sent me to private school so I could get the best education, even when money was tight, they took me to every hearing check ups, sent me to speech therapy so I could learn to speak, they just did what a normal loving parent would do and I am forever grateful to them for that.

God however was no-where to be found.

Originally Posted by Zenotwapal

Not trying to start anything but your kind of being selfish here.

Oh sorry, I didn't know that I had no right to ask to have natural hearing.

Originally Posted by Zenotwapal

God isn't going to magically fix **** in your life no matter how bad it gets.

Why though, is it because he can't or won't do it or is it because he doesn't exist. Furthermore what does god get out of making people suffer does that mean that god is evil?

Originally Posted by Zenotwapal

go ahead and call me a bad person for saying that but i really dont care i love jesus

Too bad you failed to show understanding and compassion that Jesus himself was talking about.

"Now Count up your Sins"- Kamen Rider W

Originally Posted by Clamps

And here we have GAMEFREAK EMPLOYEE Blaze Boy confirming once again that Red/Blue/Yellow/Green/ and Gold/Silver/Crystal will not be on the 3DS virtual console E-shop!